May 2013
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givevalentines replied to your post: how to sell your engagement ring in 13 steps
we definitely have to hang out
yes. we do for sure.
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“step 11. go to three other pawn shops, each packed with old engagement rings...”
– little thousand: how to sell your engagement ring in 13 steps (via soniasaraiya)
sonia, i think it’s normal, really, to feel afraid of an engagement ring. it’s like that saying the only sane reaction to an insane world is to be insane? like, if you have to get married (which at this...
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how to sell your engagement ring in 13 steps
step 1. agree with yourself previously that this will be the saddest thing you’ve ever done. even though you never wore your engagement ring because it always made you very uncomfortable and its been sitting in a fireproof box in your closet for four years.
step 2. look at it. remember how weird and archaic it felt to be given a jewel to wear to distinguish you from non married females....
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“I avoid speaking your name in conversation,
throwing it to the air as if it...”
– Tania De Rozario, A Hundred Ways To Say Your Name (via kitty-en-classe)
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“I bet if we dusted her heart for fingerprints, we’d only find yours.”
– Rudy Francisco (via rem-cycle)
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my sister cuts to the chase
me: i need to talk to you about my domestic difficulties.
bo: oh, why? do you not like sharing an apartment with your soon to be ex-husband?
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gems/tattoo ideas garnered in therapy
doug: remember that the true definition of craziness is trying to hyper control everything all the time.
me: i need a tattoo that says that.
doug (later): so when you become an adult and that need to seek out the negative so you can attach to it still exists, you need to remind yourself this is an out dated model from your childhood that no longer serves you.
me: how can we shorten that statement into tattoo length? second tattoo of the session! you're on a roll, doug!
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“That’s the anguish of [writing]. Do this book, or die. You have to go through...”
– James Baldwin (via theparisreview)
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I have an iPhone in a waiting room today so....
You know when you finally complete a draft of your manuscript? And you email all your friends? And pop a (cheap) bottle of champagne? And break into that little happy dance? It’s a wonderful feeling…
…until you realize that the party’s only just begun, because—yes—now it’s the dreaded revision. “Revision feels like the scene in Castaway when Tom Hanks’ character has to knock out his own bad...
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my laptop never seems gross/poorly kept to me until i bring it into public/into the apple store to be fixed and then i feel overwhelming shame.
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“We want the spring to come and the winter to pass. We want whoever to call or...”
– Marie Howe, from What The Living Do (via bokura)
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the dust on the mirror of my heart.
i told my husband the other day when he was complaining about the quality of whole foods hot dog buns that he was really digging deep for his snobbery these days.
i told my husband the other day that he would have made an amazing shaman (or cult leader?) and this is why he feels so lost in his life. he could live in a room without a bed and eat a crust of bread a day, he could deprive himself of...
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bobschofield said: don’t worry i’ll just mess with the hotel architecture or something to keep me interested while you rub the top of a bastard’s head
hm. yeah. i think the main interesting thing is how creepy it is to offer to massage someone’s head.
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frittedfiltered said: I like your hair, at least from this perspective.
thanks! it’s a bit albert einstein with his finger in an electric socket right now, but i kind of like it as well. i change it a lot, so i’m sure it will be different soon.
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dream #12: this one wouldn't be that fun to draw,...
i am in a hotel room with jon snow. i am wearing pajamas; but not ones that are any good, just like pj bottoms and a t-shirt and jon snow is in full north of the wall gear. and he’s storming around like “oh man, i have the worst headache!” and i go, “why don’t you lie down and put your head in my lap? i give an amazing scalp massage.”
(and now i feel like i...
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i just listened to shubert in the bath, and it was really pretty, but it did make me feel like i was in a scene from a movie where i was about to kill myself.
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why do you read my blog?
If you hate me, this should be a great moment for you. Enjoy! - Sister Wolf
dear person i used to know irl who i don’t really know anymore and who is still reading my blog,
why do you read my blog?
i mean, the internet is a free country, man, i know. it’s not like i password protect this mofo.
earlier today (maybe you saw it) i was talking about my schadenfreude laden watching of...
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me & matt over breakfast at a diner
matt: which one of us is weirder, do you think?
me: it's you.
matt: it's me. i freely admit it.
me: that's because my weirdness comes from the inside but like clearly radiates on the outside, but your weirdness is on the inside but it just stays there, undercover.
matt: which is ultimately weirder.
me: yeah, because it's surprising.
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writers that make me want to kill myself*+
jeeze, let’s see. mine are:
+h. mantel (universal writing boss)
+ernest hemingway (i can seriously only read like one short story of his every three years)
+arundhati roy (so good that it even makes *her* not want to write!)
soniasaraiya:
in no particular order:
Zadie Smith
China Mieville
Robert Penn Warren
*because they’re so great they make me want to give up +today
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stone-ship said: This should be your next book. Cause no one hears about going through a divorce, esp an amicable one. We just hear the before/after. This is really special.
thanks kender. you’re really special.
and maybe you’re right. maybe i will try and turn this all into something, i mean, it’s probably inevitable that it will turn into something. tonight i went at read...
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my microscopic inner life
so as you may have gathered, things are a little intense for me these days. the last time matt and i broke up i was 23 and it was the summer everyone was fucking bananas for the da vinci code. and don’t judge me, we all read it. you read it, you know you read it. just like you also read the girl with the dragon tattoo, because it was the cultural precursor to TDVC. and the fact that you read...
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“When you turn and look back down the years, you glimpse the ghosts of other...”
– ― Hilary Mantel, Giving Up the Ghost 